Top-of-the-Line Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 Server Powered by SPARC64 VII 2.52GHz Processor Outruns Top-of-the-Line POWER6-Based IBM Power 595 Server on Integer Throughput

(As of Monday, 14 July 2008)

Oracle's Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server achieved an extraordinary throughput of 2290 on the SPECint_rate2006 benchmark, outperforming the IBM Power 595 server by 10 percent.

SPEC CPU2006 is a CPU-intensive benchmark suite that stresses a system's processor, memory subsystem, and compiler. SPEC designed CPU2006 to provide a comparative measure of compute-intensive performance using workloads developed from actual end-user applications.

The SPEC CPU2006 benchmark suite is made up of two sets of benchmarks: the first one simulates integer-intensive workloads and the second one simulates floating point-intensive workloads. Each benchmark set has two different metrics. The Rate gauges the throughput of a system by measuring how many workload streams can be ran simultaneously and demonstrates how fast a system can complete the specified workload. Typically the number of streams corresponds to the number of processors in the system, producing Optimized and/or Base set of results.

• The Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server, equipped with SPARC64 VII 2.52GHz quad-processors, delivered results of 2,290 SPECint_rate2006.
• The Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server powered by the SPARC64 VII 2.52GHz quad processor beats the top-of-the-line 5.0GHz POWER6-based IBM Power 595 server by 10% on SPECint_rate2006 benchmark.

• Benchmark Results

Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. SPEC and the benchmark name SPECint are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. Competitive data obtained from http://www.spec.org as of the date located next to the respective claim. See the website for latest results. For comparison purposes, the terms CPU, chip and processor are used interchangeably. Each socket can accommodate one chip.IBM Power 595 (32 chips, 64 cores, 2 cores/chip ) 2,080 SPECint_rate2006. Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server (64 chips, 256 cores, 4 cores/chip) 2,290 SPECint_rate2006.